Improved SEA results in Tobago

THA Secretary for Education, Orville London, has reported an improvement in the performance level of students who sat the S.E.A exam on the island.

At Thursday’s Post Executive media briefing, London said that after an assessment of this year’s SEA results by education staff, a reduction in the number of students in the “R Grade”, students who normally scored under 30% in the exams, was detected. He said that the number of students in the R Grade had been reduced from 19% in 2002 to 8% in 2003 but stated however that he was still not satisfied with Tobago students’ placement in the “upper strata”. “Our initial information is that only one of the Tobago students would have placed in the top 100 in the country, that is Kayola Wilson of St Andrews Anglican (Scarborough) and her position was 91st. I think that we must have more of our people (students) coming in that first category.” London noted. He reported also that members of the Education division had met with TTUTA on Wednesday to discuss ways of further decreasing the percentage of students in the “R Grade”. All of the 915 students who sat this year’s exam have been placed at Secondary Schools throughout the island including the new Mason Hall and Goodwood Government Secondary Schools.